Andrea Moro

Andrea Moro
Moro, 2019
Born (1962-07-24) 24 July 1962 (age 62)
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Padua
University of Pavia
Known forInverse copular sentences
Dynamic Antisymmetry
neurolinguistics
impossible languages
Scientific career
Fieldslinguistics
neuroscience
InstitutionsUniversity School for Advanced Studies IUSS, Pavia (Italy)
Doctoral advisorGuglielmo Cinque
Websiteorcid.org/0000-0002-6602-5871

Andrea Carlo Moro (born 24 July 1962) is an Italian linguist, neuroscientist and novelist.

He is currently full professor of general linguistics at the Institute for Advanced Study IUSS Pavia and the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy, and founder and former director of NeTS and of the Department of Cognitive Behavioural and Social Sciences. He studied at the University of Pavia for his laurea, then he got a Ph.D. at the University of Padua; he has been visiting a scientist several times at MIT, first with a Fulbright grant, then at Harvard. He was a professor at the University of Bologna and the Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele. He is a member of the Academia Europaea and the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon.